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SAUNA
- hot dry room
- Walls and ceiling lined with cedar panelling insulated with batts and aluminium foil.
- Seats cedar
- Floor tiled (non-slip)
- Sauna heater inside the room
Dry Sauna
- Temp 70-90 deg C Humidity 5-10%
- Tylo standard heater
- No water used
Wet Sauna
- Temp 70-90 deg C Humidity 5-10%, 15-35% in short bursts
- Tylo standard heater
- One or two ladles of water on hot rocks produces short burst of humidity and sensation of extra heat.
Steam Sauna Domestic
- Temp 45-65 deg C Humidity 40-65%
- Tylo Combi Heater with inbuilt tank boils water for sustained humidity;
- no need for water on hot rocks - gentler sauna at lower temperatures,
- can alternate between dry, wet, and steam-sauna in the one session.
Steam Sauna Commercial
- Uses the standard commercial heater with humidity from an external
steam generator, both operated by a single electronic control panel.
STEAM ROOM
hot wet room
- Walls tiled, or lined with white aluminium flat sheet.
- Cieling lined with white aluminium flat sheet
- Floor tiled (non-slip) with floor waste
- Seats tiled, or fibreglass
- Steam generator outside the room - steam piped in
- Temperature 40-45 deg C Relative Humidity 100%.
- A shower in the steam room is an enhancement, enabling a cool or luke-warm shower during the steam session.
STEAM SHOWER
- typically a larger shower with fixed seat, and room to stand and shower, with external steam supply as for a steam room.
- See also "Tylette" modular steam-shower units incorporating water-jet massage and other features.
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